Template:Short description Template:Primary sources Template:Infobox person Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788; baptized 23 September 1788<ref name=Doopakte>Baptismal certificate 23 September 1788 Groningen Martinikerk. Retrieved 14 March 2019.</ref> – 3 February 1899) was a Dutch supercentenarian and is generally accepted by scholars as the first validated case on record.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=grggl>Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born before 1850, as of May 17, 2019. Gerontology Research Group</ref>
BiographyEdit
Early lifeEdit
Little is known about Boomgaard's life: he was born in Groningen, Netherlands. His parents were Adriaan Jacobs Boomgaard (1763–1844) and Geesje Geerts Bontekoe (1762–1834).<ref name="delpher">Template:Cite news</ref> His father was captain on a boat, and civil records say that Geert had the same job.<ref name=wiewaswie1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Primary source inline In addition to captaining a boat, other sources say that he also served as a soldier in the Dutch-recruited 33e Regiment d'Infanterie Legere (33rd Light Infantry Regiment) in Napoleon's Grande Armée.<ref name="derniersveterans.free.fr">Derniers vétérans de l'Armée napoléonienne, Premier Empire Template:In lang</ref>
MarriagesEdit
Aged 29, on 4 March 1818, Boomgaard married Stijntje Bus (baptized 19 February 1797 – died 24 March 1830).<ref name="delpher"/><ref name="wiewaswie1"/> Stijntje died aged 33, a month after the birth of their 8th child. A year later, on 17 March 1831, Boomgaard married Grietje Abels Jonker (baptized 19 May 1793 – 18 May 1864),<ref name="delpher"/> with whom he had four more children, for a total of 12.
LongevityEdit
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On 8 January 1897, Boomgaard surpassed the final age of Belgian Pierre Darcourt (108 years and 108 days) to become the oldest man ever,<ref name=grggl /> and by 10 April 1898, he was older than the previous titleholder, 109-year-old Norwegian woman Kirsti Skagen (1788–1897), therefore making him the oldest ever verified person at that time.<ref name=grggl />
Boomgaard outlived all of his children: his last surviving child, Jansje Hinderika, died aged 56 on 24 May 1885.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Boomgaard died aged 110 years and 135 days. The first female supercentenarian and his successor was Margaret Ann Neve — who surpassed Adriaans' final age, dying at almost 111 (1792–1903) — although his lifespan as the longest-lived male was not surpassed until 29 October 1966 by John Mosely Turner, who died aged 111 years and nine months (1856–1968).